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Exemplary England
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Author : Sarabeth Grant
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2023-03-08
Exemplary England written by Sarabeth Grant and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-08 with History categories.
What meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions of the "great men" of the past, those connected to formal expressions of power, as models worthy of imitation. The problem with such exemplars is that they craft a limited view of national identity, drawn from political, economic, religious, and social institutional superstructures. Inherently exclusionary, narratives of exemplary men inadequately represent the complexities of a metropolitan and diverse society. In Exemplary England, Sarabeth Grant explores three canonical texts of 1740s England that critique the class, geography, and gender assumptions of the exemplar model. Through original readings of Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and Samuel Richardson, she locates practices of constituting history and registering national identity in eighteenth-century England beyond that tradition. Her book argues that these literary texts offer recompense for the national injustices endured by the disenfranchised, charting the development of inward historical consciousness as necessary to civic stability.
Alchemy And Exemplary Poetry In Middle English Literature
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Author : Curtis Runstedler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-27
Alchemy And Exemplary Poetry In Middle English Literature written by Curtis Runstedler and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.
Exemplary Spenser
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Author : Jane Grogan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Exemplary Spenser written by Jane Grogan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exemplary Spenser analyses the didactic poetics of The Faerie Queene, renewing attention to its avowed attempt to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" and examining how Spenser mobilises his pedagogic concerns through the reading experience of the poem. Grogan's investigation shows how Spenser transacts the public life of the nation heuristically, prompting a reflective reading experience that compels engagement with other readers, other texts and other political communities. Negotiating between competing pedagogical traditions, she shows how Spenser's epic challenges the more conservative prevailing impulses of humanist pedagogy to espouse a radical didacticism capable of inventing a more active and responsible reader. To this end, Grogan examines a wide variety of Spenser's techniques and sources, including Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy and the powerful visually-couched epistemological paradigms of early modern culture, ekphrasis among them. Importantly, Grogan examines how Spenser's didactic poetics was crucially shaped by readings of the Greek historian Xenophon's Cyropaedia, a text and influence previously overlooked by critics. Grogan concludes by reading the last book of The Faerie Queene, the Legend of Courtesy, as an attempt to reconcile his own didactic sources and poetics with the more recent tastes of his contemporaries for a courtesy theory less concerned with "vertuous and gentle discipline". Returning to the early modern reading experience, Grogan shows the sophisticated intertextual dexterity that goes into reading Spenser, where Spenserian pedagogy lies not simply in the textual body of the poem, but also in the act of reading it.
In Defense Of Tort Law
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Author : Thomas Koenig
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2001-08
In Defense Of Tort Law written by Thomas Koenig and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08 with Law categories.
Tort law is a good thing (whatever it is....).
The American And English Railroad Cases
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The American And English Railroad Cases written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.
Between Two Worlds
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Author : Malcolm Gaskill
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Between Two Worlds written by Malcolm Gaskill and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with History categories.
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced -- by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians -- to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence
Reference Department
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Author : Cleveland Public Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Reference Department written by Cleveland Public Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with Reference books categories.
Romantic Englishness
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Author : D. Higgins
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-23
Romantic Englishness written by D. Higgins and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth.
The American And English Railroad Cases
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Author : Lawrence Lewis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
The American And English Railroad Cases written by Lawrence Lewis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Railroad law categories.
Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895.
Official Reports Of The Debates Of The House Of Commons Of The Dominion Of Canada
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Official Reports Of The Debates Of The House Of Commons Of The Dominion Of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Canada categories.